Question for the day

[davywavy]

Elitism only has a bad reputation amongst those who do not have either the wherewithal and/or the ambition to join said elite.

Discuss.

Comments

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

Or, perhaps, with those who were once in the 'Elite' and became jaded and cynical at the attitudes of the Elite vs. the world and the World vs. the elite, they just got fed up of the attitudes of both those who want but don't have and those who do have and rub it in the faces of those tho don't. Told them all to go to hell, as it were.

I see it around me constantly. People who are on the one hand bitching and moaning about those who are in the 'elite' groups having everything yet at the same time being Proud of their ignorance, lack of *insert desired value here* and the very things that set them apart from those they 'wish' to be. People who have it and know it and become extremely snobbish about the fact; looking down on everyone else who doesn't measure up to their 'elite' standars, even if the person in question *is* just as 'elite' but in a different field.

Long, long ago gave up on Mensa and other such organisations because I found the attitudes bandied about by all sides annoyed me. (That and I have major fundamental issues with Mensa as 'intelligence' testing anyway.)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it is an intelligence test. If you're a member, you're obviously not smart enough.

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Very good point. Though most people I know who are still members seem to acknowledge the fact that it means and proves nothing yet continue to be members because they like the puzzles they get sent ;-)